Replica calculator adds up to a €50,000 auction sum

Since 1925 the Deutsches Museum in Munich has been exhibiting a complex and highly decorated 18th century calculating machine that bears the inscription Braun Invenit – Vayringe Fecit.

These were the Viennese court mathematician Anton Braun and Philippe Vayringe, a French clockmaker …

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